The Complete Swimmer. By Frank Sachs. With Illustrations and Diagrams.
(Methuen and Co. 7s. 6d. net.) —This book `Teats swimmi g from a variety of standpoints, ranging, indeed, at will, from the platform of the professional diver or the starting-board of the speed-swimmer to those involun- tary and undesired lessons in natation formerly supplied at Eton to the less mature of its youth. Baths are treated of at some length, but from the point of view of club con- tests rather than of public enjoyment. Water polo is described among a variety of other topics, and accounts of some of the early methods of resuscitation employed by the Royal Humane Society ire given. These latter prove diverting if gruesome reading, as the plans which found most favour from 1806 to 1811 appear to have included "such practices as hanging the patients by the heels (in order to get the water out of them), of rolling them on barrels,
. of blood letting, or of blowing first breath and afterwards air (the latter with the aid of bellows) into the lungs."
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